The Simplest—And Most Common—Cellphones Are Vulnerable To The “SMS Of Death”
Despite how obsessed we may be with smartphones, it’s the simplest cellphones which are most common—and the most vulnerable. In fact, it seems that many of those phones could be rendered useless by a maliciously crafted SMS. https://gizmodo.com/the-most-popular-phone-in-the-world-5634258 It’s a scene from an as-yet-unmade thriller – across a country, tens of thousands of cell phones…
General FAIL: The Military’s Worst Tweeters
Generals and admirals are powerful people. Their decisions determine the course of thousands of lives, with aftereffects that can affect millions more. Their words are parsed for clues about the future of American warfare. And they absolutely cannot tweet. Twitter may be nearing 200 million users worldwide. But the military has a love-hate relationship with…
Breaking GSM Security With a $15 Phone
Whatever assurances have been given about the security of GSM cellphone calls, forget about them now. Speaking at the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) Congress here today, a pair of researchers demonstrated a start-to-finish means of eavesdropping on encrypted GSM cellphone calls and text messages, using only four sub-$15 telephones as network “sniffers,” a laptop computer…
